Thousands of small cafes and restaurants risk ruin unless they adapt to the revolution in online orders, an expert has warned.

The businesses are more than 15 years behind retailers in adopting online ordering systems, according to the chief executive of Preoday, which provides online and mobile ordering technology.

Andrew White, whose company partnered global payments business Worldpay in March, compared firms failing to keep up with consumers’ increasing reliance on technology to dinosaurs and said they were beginning to panic. Read More . . .